git-daemon support for user-relative paths.

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-daemon.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 3783858302018bf9d5afa4336a9fea95b3120167..972e0e1571391efb6041f0e7bff5df18fb1a4eaf 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -29,9 +29,15 @@ This is ideally suited for read-only updates, ie pulling from git repositories.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
++--strict-paths::
+       Match paths exactly (i.e. don't allow "/foo/repo" when the real path is
+       "/foo/repo.git" or "/foo/repo/.git") and don't do user-relative paths.
+       git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
+       whitelist is specified.
+
 --export-all::
        Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
-       (have the 'objects' subdirectory and a 'HEAD' file), even if they
+       (have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they
        do not have the 'git-daemon-export-ok' file.
 
 --inetd::
@@ -57,9 +63,15 @@ OPTIONS
 --verbose::
        Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.
 
+<directory>::
+       A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
+       --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
+       of each named directory.
+
 Author
 ------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
+Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
+<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
 
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